Re: Maintainers was: kernels exploitable

Hi,

Yea I saw quite a few people myself that jumped up to help Patrick. It made 
me proud to be part of a community that took the time and effort to do 
whatever we all could do for him and help as much as possible.

My mom isn't a computer person, but she worked at the main hospital where I 
live, and she was friends with a lot of the doctors there, so after reading 
what was going on, I emailed Pat and asked him for some info and he replied 
that day with the info I had asked for, and I had my mom come check it out 
and the next day she went to work, showed the info to a specialist they're, 
and he agreed that he'd help and to simply let him know when Patrick got to 
Michigan.

I emailed Patrick back with the details and was very very Happy to hear 
that his results had finally gotten back and they had started treatment 
that morning.

My mom knew Slackware was a big deal to me even if she didn't quite know 
much about it outside of it being one of the distros I used at home.

My mom knew that Slackware was a Linux distro, and that's about it, and 
she'd watched me do my yearly orders from the Slackware store and the 
FreeBSD mall which I do whenever possible.

I've still got my Slackware shirts, the case pins which I love, and 
Slackware mouse pad. I've literally ordered basically everything from the 
store other than the polo shirt because I prefer tee shirts.

I've done the same with the FreeBSD mall too, got the case pins, mouse 
pads, and every book they have. And of course the CDs.

But yea at the time I was still living with my mom and every year I'd order 
a bunch of stuff with Slackware plastered all over it so she knew that this 
was important to me.

I was not disappointed that Patrick found a doctor that was finally willing 
to do the things he needed done; I was just glad he was getting the 
treatment he needed. Though I'd have loved to have gotten to hang out with 
him at the hospital and gotten a chance to just talk to him in person, the 
most important thing was Patrick's health, so even though I wanted to hang 
out, I was glad he was finally getting treatment.

If anything, you guys deserve a round of applause; I still remember the way 
that all of us came together doing anything we could, to try and help Patrick.

Makes me proud to be a part of this community :-) I no longer live with my 
mom, but my Wife, is sitting at Her desk behind me, watching Hell Boy 2, on 
Her dual boot Windows and Slackware machine :-)

Yes, I know I'm lucky; My Wife has been using Slackware longer than I've 
owned a computer. When I first moved into my Wife's apartment when we first 
started dating, my Wife's computers ran a mix of Slackware, Windows, and 
Solaris. And She uses Vi :-)

Lol needless to say, She was running Linux and Solaris, She's a better 
coder than I am, and uses Vi, so I asked Her to Marry Me lol.

-Allen
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On June 27, 2015 8:50:34 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Jun 2015, Allen wrote:
>
> > Actually, I used to talk to Patrick all the time. I even had his cell
> > phone number for a while back when he was having bad health problems and
> > was in serious need off a doctor that actually would cue him, and my mom
> > worked in a hospital and I've a lot of doctors so I asked my mom to help,
> > emailed Patrick Volkerding and told him that I found him a doctor that
> > would actually listen. He knew what was wrong and he knew what to do but
> > every doctor he saw was basically being stupid and would constantly say
> > they had to run some tests before they would help him and then say that
> > what he thinks it is is rare and blah blah blah, so I emailed him that I
> > knew someone willing to help and he emailed me back right away, and gave
> > me his cell phone number so that we could talk about it, and then he ended
> > up not having to come here because he finally got done test results back
> > proving what was wrong and the Doctor finally took care of it.
>
> Allen,
>
>    I well remember this. I wrote, too, to offer assistance from the med
> school here but he found other resources. A lot of us in the Slackware
> community stepped forward to assist where we could.
>
> Rich